{"id":11560,"date":"2025-06-17T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:26:49","slug":"sen-padilla-chokes-up-on-senate-floor-recounting-removal-from-noem-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Padilla chokes up on Senate floor recounting removal from Noem press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, became emotional as he spoke out on the Senate floor on Tuesday about being forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&#8217;s news conference in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/los-angeles\" id=\"_ap_link_Los Angeles_LosAngeles_\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In lengthy remarks, Padilla choked up as he described being taken to the ground by law enforcement officers and handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I pray you never have a moment like this,&#8221; Padilla said to his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, became emotional as he spoke out on the Senate floor on Tuesday about being forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&#8217;s news conference in Los Angeles last week. In lengthy remarks, Padilla choked up as he described being taken to the ground by law enforcement officers and handcuffed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11562,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}